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dragovian.bsky.social
A Lyrical Forest of Radiant Bullshit
@dragovian.bsky.social
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I co-write with my wife, talk about World of Warcraft, and sometimes make things in Blender.
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I love demonstrating the importance of class silhouette in modern WoW.
A male Kul Tiran in a yellow rain coat, with a staff decorated with a teapot and keg, stands next to a male dracthyr in visage form, wearing Valdrakken citizens apparel and carrying the same staff.
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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The deeper I read, the more horrifying this "three cuing" method of reading becomes.

You can't teach children to read words by literally COVERING UP THE WORD.

How has the entire US education system been gulled into thinking this teaches reading skills?

I'm so glad I don't have kids.
Screencap from an article about whole reading. In the center is an image of a book with "Look at the caterpillar" on one page and a photo of a caterpillar on the other. The article text around the image reads: The class reads a book together called "In the Garden." On each page, there's a picture of something you might find in a garden. It's what's known as a predictable book; the sentences are all the same except for the last word. The children have been taught to memorize the words "look," "at," and "the." The challenge is getting the last word in the sentence. The lesson plan tells the teacher to cover up the word with a sticky note.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I can't believe the game has given me this gift.
A male Kul Tiran from World of Warcraft. He's wearing a yellow rain coat, rain hood, and galoshes and carrying a staff with an anchor-shaped head. His name is Gorton.
November 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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My brewmaster is considering becoming the new Gorton's Fisherman.

I need to be able to mog my staff into a fishing pole.
A male pandaren dressed in a yellow raincoat, rain hood, and galoshes.
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
dragovian.bsky.social
Knowing your work, it's hard to believe you don't have twice that many followers. You're amazing.

May I present my monk, in all his scarred up glory.
Closeup render of a male Pandaren's partially-missing ear Cartoon-style portrait of a scarred male Pandaren by artists Ten Nine Half body image of a male pandaren in ox themed armor by artist Cher-Ro
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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My Lorewalker-Priest has a firm conviction that the Light exists to assist with his late-night research sessions.
A male Pandaren, in reading glasses and a Lorewalker tabard, channels the Light to illuminate the pages of a large book written in Pandaren script. Art by Belvane.
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Clearly, nothing human could write this opening (that I wrote back in 2021 during NaNoWriMo).
A screen capture of the opening paragraph of a novel. The first sentence is highlighted, indicating an AI detector thinks it's AI. The text reads: "Wind swept sharply down the stony slopes that led to the village, chill despite the impending summer season, carrying with it both the scent of tough mountain brush and the bite of whatever snow still lingered near the peaks. Above the grim, dark crags which guarded the little village of Bahlnam to the north and south, the sky was already dark, spangled with the first bright points of stars. It was only the open west that held the last traces of fire, red and gold touched clouds fading rapidly to ominous grey and purple, as if to remind us all of the unnaturally fierce storm season which had just passed."
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Really, Mr. Shadowsong, we just met.
A screenshot from World of Warcraft with a male draenei sitting on a mount in front of a male night elf.
October 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Tsumi, my smol rogue
Vulpera rogue in Legion remix armor
October 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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The new brewfest gear is being very kind to my wife's lightforged pally.
Rear view of a lightforged draenei male wearing the new green kilt and shoulder capes and nothing else. The split cape effect shows off all his glowing back tattoos.
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Look at this set. Just look at it.
A male pandaren in an ornate armor set from the Wandering Isle (pandaren start zone).
October 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I truly wish they'd have taken any of the Pandaren start zone armors and given them 3D elements (and added any missing pieces) for our heritage armor. Because what they gave us doesn't resemble anything from the Turtle, Pandaria, or even the Burdens of Shao-Hao.
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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If this pic from reddit is really what Pandaren heritage armor looks like, I DEEPLY REGRET ever asking for Pandaren heritage armor.

Like, really. I take it back. I take it all back. We don't need this.
A male pandaren wearing a hat with an incense burner on top, a torn flap of silk obscuring his face. Crude bamboo pauldrons are strapped to his upper arms. Asymmetrical black and white clothing covers the rest of his body. A small ceramic tea pot and what might be a bamboo cup hang from his belt.
October 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
dragovian.bsky.social
Um, Blizzard? A little texture here, please?
A Pandaren female in MoP Classic whose clothing textures have all been replaced by matte black.
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Fine then, I shall!
Screen capture of a text document with the opening paragraphs of a Victorian cozy mystery. Carriage lamps cast wild, wavering streaks of amber across hedgerows which hadn’t yet recovered from winter, the rain-rutted road doing the conveyance’s passengers no favors as its driver hurried to beat the gathering dusk. “Brace yourself, ma’am.” Drawing back from where she’d been peering out the window, Tilly Hatch suited actions to words, settling back into her seat and bracing one hand against the polished wood. “Be lucky if we don’t break our necks afore we get there,” she muttered, just as they made a brashly precarious turn onto the beech-lined drive leading up to Pembridge Hall. Unflustered by either the rocking carriage or the mutterings of her lady’s maid, Lady Isadora Harrow adjusted the folds of her traveling cloak. “Don’t be dour, dear,” she chided gently. “I’m sure our driver is as eager to be safely by the fire as we are.” She peered out the window toward the gaslit manor house they were approaching, ignoring Tilly’s soft “hmph” beside her. For a strange moment the familiarity of it all was disorienting; the grandness of the house on its manicured grounds, the winding drive ensuring any visitor would be suitably impressed, seemed to deny the very passage of time. So many houses like this one had received her during her girlhood that she could easily believe it had only been months since she had been here visiting her childhood friend, newly wed in the wake of their first season, not a decade and more. She smiled a bit wryly in the darkness. Not that she would ever have traded a single day with Nathaniel, no matter that their home was far less lofty, their meals simpler, their evenings dominated by rigorous debate rather than genteel gossip. Her marriage may have been deemed less than her parents or society expected of her, but she did not regret a single one of the thirteen years she had been blessed to be Nathaniel Harrow’s wife.
September 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
dragovian.bsky.social
So, recently my insurance company sent me a letter telling me that if I wanted my prescriptions covered, I needed to switch to CVS or Amazon as my pharmacy.

These are the prices I see when I go to Amazon for my prescription.

Yes, "with insurance" costs more than without. What is this scam?
A screenshot of medication prices on Amazon Pharmacy. The price with insurance is $41.29. The price without insurance is $35.45.
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
dragovian.bsky.social
As found on reddit, these zone descriptions are some painfully unedited AI slop. Way worse than the unedited AI slop flavor text on items in TWW.

I did, however, like the redditor who suggested with all these mysterious mysteries, the new class should be "meddling kids".
A screen shot from reddit of the zone descriptions for WoW's Midnight expansion. The poster has circled all of the times the descriptions repeat how mysterious the zones are. The text is clearly AI generated.
August 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Inappropriate, Farmer Yoon.

Accurate. But inappropriate.
Screen cap of part of a quest box from World of Warcraft. The clipped image says "Wow, Anying! Those are some big melons."
August 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Aaaand...done, thanks to the Order of the Cloud Serpent, Tillers (feeding them counts as a daily quest), August Celestials, and of course, my beloved Klaxxi, who are pretty much made of dailies.

I haven't even gotten to the Golden Lotus yet. But there's still time in the day.
A World of Warcraft Classic achievement screen showing the achievements for hitting Level 90, Explore Valley of Four Winds, Explore Jade Forest, and Every Day I'm Panda-ren (25 Pandaria dailies in a single reset period) all on the same day.
August 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Empirical evidence from an author with one book still in KU and everything else wide. And I've been wide FOR YEARS on these sites.
Screenshot of a spreadsheet showing percentages of book sales on various storefronts. Amazon accounts for between 77% and 92% of sales in all months.
July 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
dragovian.bsky.social
My own pick for a future delve companion?
Lorewalker Cho

(Except let's be honest, while we're fighting mobs he'll be off poking in corners and touching things which may get us killed. Then he'll look over and go, "Oh, dear, did you stand in that?")
Lorewalker Cho from World of Warcraft (Hearthstone card art) A male pandaren with black fur and wearing a red and gold tabard stands with an armful of scrolls.
June 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Sunlin, my Lorewalker priest, who you can feel absolutely free to draw as a dragon.

(The screenshots don't show it, of course, but Sunlin is very short for a Pandaren male, extremely round, and very nearsighted.)
Male Pandaren in a Lorewalker tabard. Back view of a male Pandaren wearing a backpack.
April 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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I bet China didn't even think to call him Godfather.
A social media post by Donald Trump in which he complains China has failed to "show respect" and he's raising tariffs.
April 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I can't believe I'm the only one who thinks the "unflattering" picture of Trump makes him look like a bitter, angry Bobby Hill.
A portrait of Donald Trump that he calls "unflattering". Bobby Hill from King of the Hill
March 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
dragovian.bsky.social
I'm still haunted by Sylvanas's weird, untextured play-doh hair.

"Good" Sylvanas's whole head was made of sculpy.
Sylvanas from Shadowlands
March 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM